500 Hz ultraviolet dye laser with pulse energy 1.7 mJ and potential for PLIF imaging

ABSTRACT

This paper describes a high-pulse-energy frequency-doubled ultraviolet dye laser operating at a repetition rate of 500?Hz. The pump source is a laser-diode side-pumped Q-switched Nd:YAG laser with a pulse energy of 29?mJ at 532?nm. A master oscillator power amplifier is employed to amplify the output pulse of the dye laser to 8.1?mJ at 566?nm, and by frequency doubling with BBO crystal a pulse energy of 1.7?mJ at 283?nm is achieved with a pulse width of 8?ns. This is more than four times the largest reported pulse energies generated by other fixed-frequency dye lasers when operating at repetition rates of more than 1?kHz. The conversion efficiency and stability of dye laser are discussed, which show the potential for high-speed laser diagnostics in the fields of combustion and turbulent flow detection.     

准分子激光及其应用

本文概述了准分子激光的特点和近年来的发展，特别着重介绍了准分子激光在工业、医学和科学研究中的应用。     

Comparison of laser generation in thermally bonded and unbonded Er3+,Yb3+:glass/Co2+:MgAl2O4 microchip lasers

Pulse laser generation in several Er³⁺,Yb³⁺:glasses thermally bonded with Co²⁺:MgAl₂O₄ was achieved. Peak power in the range of 1.83–7.68 kW with pulse duration between 2.9 and 4.2 ns and energy up to 24 μJ was obtained. The output characteristics for different transmissions of the output couplers were investigated. To show the improvements gained by the thermal bonding procedure, a comparison of thermally bonded and unbonded samples was done in terms of generation efficiency, peak power, beam quality, generated spectra and pulse to pulse jitter.     

激光表面改性技术及其研究进展

激光表面改性技术是表面工程中的先进技术之一,其在先进制造与再制造领域的应用备受关注。本文概述了激光表面改性技术中的激光相变硬化、激光熔凝硬化、激光冲击硬化、激光合金化、激光熔覆等,介绍了以上几种激光表面改性技术的研究现状,最后对激光表面改性技术的发展与工程应用的前景进行了展望。     

金属粉末激光快速成形的工艺及材料成形性

对比了3类金属粉末激光快速成形工艺:选区激光烧结;选区激光重熔,或称选区激光熔覆;以及直接激光沉积,或称激光净成形.提出了其分类依据是金属粉末与激光的作用机制,以及由此导致的金属粉末激光成形机理.综述了上述3类激光快速成形工艺的成形原理、成形材料及工艺优劣,分析了"球化"效应、翘曲变形、以及裂纹等对金属粉末激光成形性的影响规律及相应解决措施.     

Gas lasers

The important gas lasers which find wide applications in material processing are the CO₂ laser, the argon-ion laser and the excimer lasers. This paper briefly describes the basic concepts and the technology of these lasers.     

镁合金激光表面改性研究进展

综述了激光表面改性（激光表面重熔、激光表面合金化、激光表面熔敷、激光多层熔数）的研究与应用，最后提出了存在的问题和努力的方向。     

激光致损与辐照面直径间的关系

采用不同的样品,研究了致损激光的能量密度或功率密度与辐照面直径之间的关系,发现其间存在一个拐点。当辐照直径小于该点对应的值时,致损激光的能量或功率密度基本保持不变。文中对产生上述现象的原因进行了讨论     

基于转镜的激光照明系统设计及实验研究

为了实现区域内快速运动微小目标的激光辅助照明,提出了利用转镜与点激光器组成扇形激光辅助照明系统的设计方案.详细论述了转镜面数、外接圆直径及转速与激光照明光幕的关系.给出了该激光照明系统下目标被照亮部分的平均激光功率密度与点激光光源功率、激光扫描速度、点激光发散角、相机曝光时间和目标与激光光源距离之间关系的计算公式.仿真...     

Passively Q-switched mode-locking Nd:GdVO4 laser with a chemically reduced graphene oxide saturable absorber

A diode-pumped passively Q-switched mode-locking Nd:GdVO₄ laser using a chemically reduced graphene oxide saturable absorber was demonstrated. The repetition rate and pulse width of the Q-switching envelopes were 5.7 MHz and 100 ns, respectively, while those of the mode-locking pulses that were modulated in the Q-switching envelopes were 139 MHz and 10 ps. At the maximum pump power of 7 W, the average output power was 1.38 W, corresponding to a slope efficiency of 25%.     

新型激光晶体材料研究进展

对新型激光晶体近年比较活跃的两个研究方向,掺镱的激光晶体和拉曼激光晶体的研究状况进行了总结.掺镱晶体可以产生高功率的激光输出,是重要的研究方向;同时掺镱激光晶体还可以实现用激光二极管泵浦的超快激光输出.拉曼晶体可以方便地产生人们所需要的激光波长,具有潜在的应用.本文对于这两类晶体的优点、可能应用的方向及最新的发展方向进行了阐述.     

Diffraction Method of Simultaneous Determination of the Size and Speed of a Large Cylindrical Particle

Diffraction of a Gaussian beam by a large cylindrical particle that intersects the beam with constant speed is investigated both theoretically and experimentally. Certain features of the problem associated with the presence of the spatial scale of the beam are analyzed. A method is proposed and a device created for simultaneous measurement of the radius and speed of a particle. Measurements demonstrated good agreement between the calculated and experimental data.     

铁碳合金表面激光熔覆的研究进展

激光熔覆技术具有加热速度快、熔覆过程中产生的热影响区小、基体表面温度低等优点,因此能够较好地保证零部件的尺寸精度,近年来发展成广泛应用的表面改性技术。激光熔覆技术对涂层粉末以及基材选择要求不高,因此广泛应用于不同种类基体材料的再制造修复。从铁碳合金材料出发,分别对激光熔覆技术在改善铸铁、碳钢及合金钢材料的力学性能、耐磨性、耐蚀性、抗热疲劳性等方面的应用进展和存在的问题及对策进行了分析,阐明了工艺参数、材料成分以及工件的预热或后处理对制备高质量大熔覆层组织和性能的影响规律,最后指出了激光熔覆技术在目前研究中存在的问题并对其未来发展方向进行了展望。     

Nd:YAG激光与半导体激光复合焊接对铝合金焊缝组织和性能的影响

目的 提高铝合金的焊缝抗拉强度,解决铝合金焊接过程中的裂纹缺陷。方法 采用脉冲Nd:YAG激光与半导体激光复合焊接铝合金,先用Nd:YAG激光形成焊接熔池,然后用半导体激光对熔池进行加热保温,获得无裂纹的焊缝,并对焊缝进行抗拉强度测试。结果 与单独的Nd:YAG激光焊接相比,Nd:YAG激光与半导体激光复合焊接的铝合金焊缝抗拉强度提高了50%,达到193 MPa,为母材抗拉强度的90%。结论 2束激光的结合延长了熔池的冷却凝固时间,从而有效避免了热裂纹,减少了焊接缺陷,提高了焊接质量。     

Laser effects based optimal laser parameter identifications for paint removal from metal substrate at 1064 nm: a multi-pulse model

Paint removal by laser ablation is favoured among cleaning techniques due to its high efficiency. How to predict the optimal laser parameters without producing damage to substrate still remains challenging for accurate paint stripping. On the basis of ablation morphologies and combining experiments with numerical modelling, the underlying mechanisms and the optimal conditions for paint removal by laser ablation are thoroughly investigated. Our studies suggest that laser paint removal is dominated by the laser vaporization effect, thermal stress effect and laser plasma effect, in which thermal stress effect is the most favoured while laser plasma effect should be avoided during removal operations. Based on the thermodynamic equations, we numerically evaluated the spatial distribution of the temperature as well as thermal stress in the paint and substrate under the irradiation of laser pulse at 1064 nm. The obtained curves of the paint thickness vs. threshold fluences can provide the reference standard of laser parameter selection in view of the paint layer with different thickness. A multi-pulse model is proposed and validated under a constant laser fluence to perfectly remove a thicker paint layer. The investigations and the methods proposed here might give hints to the efficient operations on the paint removal and lowering the risk of substrate damages.     

激光技术在塑料薄膜加工中的应用

塑料薄膜的激光切割和打孔看似微不足道,但将该工艺引入到制袋工艺中,制袋质量和包装功能将能进一步优化,企业的市场竞争力将进一步提升.介绍了激光技术应用于塑料薄膜的切割和打孔的原理和优势,回顾了激光技术在薄膜加工中的研究进展,并展望了激光技术在软包装应用中的广阔前景.     

铝合金激光表面强化的研究进展

综述了铝合金表面激光强化的工艺方法和特点，阐述了铝合金激光表面强化层的组织特征、硬度变化及其耐磨、耐蚀性能，总结了国内外在此研究领域的最新进展．     

Quantum characteristics of stimulated Cherenkov radiation in dielectric-lined waveguide operating at optical wavelengths

In this paper, a quantum mechanical model is proposed to describe the basic features of stimulated Cherenkov radiation in the small-signal low-gain regime. In this model, the electron is described by a wavepacket with finite spreading length and the electron wave function is a solution of the Schrödinger equation. We show that the quantum effects are manifested when the spreading length of the electron wave is much longer than the electromagnetic (EM) wavelength such as in the optical wavelength range. The effect of electron relaxation due to Coulomb's collisions with neighboring electrons is introduced to characterize the damping of the vibration of the electron wave with time. When the relaxation effect is neglected, we prove that our essential results match with other classical and quantum approaches based on different theoretical concepts.     

Behaviour of lasing wavelength change during degradation in a buried-heterostructure (BH)-type DFB laser

The behaviour of lasing wavelength change during degradation is experimentally clarified for a buried heterostructure (BH) InGaAsP/InP DFB laser, and the mechanism of the wavelength change is theoretically analysed.